In 2014 it will be 300 years since George of Hannover came to the British throne as George the first. The Brandon Hill Chamber Orchestra is celebrating this Personalunion with concerts in Berlin and Hannover.

Handel's Coronation Anthems were commissioned by George I for his son, George II and open the concert in glorious regal splendour. Britten's Violin Concerto is a memorial to those who tried to defeat Franco in the Spanish Civil War. It's a powerful expresson of grief and tragedy. Elgar's enigmas are fourteen warm portraits of his friends.